According to Basic Epidemiology (Bonita et al. 2006) published by WHO, Case Fatality Rate is a measure of disease severity and is defined as the proportion of cases with a specified disease or condition who die within a specified time. It is usually expressed as a percentage. Similarly, case recovery rate is defined as the proportion of cases with a specific disease or condition who recovered within a specified time. Figure 1 and Figure 2, respectively represents the COVID-19 case fatality rate and case recovery rate for India and its ten major affected states.

All the information for estimation of case fatality rate and case recovery rate is acquired from https://www.covid19india.org/. As of 22nd May 2021, the top ten Indian states with highest cases of COVID-19 are Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. India has case fatality and case recovery rate of 1.13 percent and 88.28 percent respectively. Of the ten states, Kerala has the lowest case fatality rate of 0.31 percent with 87.22 percent case recovery rate. Delhi has the highest case recovery rate of 96.16 percent. Delhi has the highest case fatality rate of 1.63 percent. And Karnataka has the lowest case recovery rate of 78.83 percent.


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Note: The rates are not computed for days with confirmed cases less than 20.



Reference
Bonita, R., Beaglehole, R., & Kjellström, T. (2006). Basic epidemiology. World Health Organization.


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